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The ritual magic of exercising agency

Don’t misunderstand: the fundamental problem in your life may well be “Shit Life Syndrome” due to capitalism or a health condition you can’t get treated due to capitalism and medical ableism or something else. Even “just” depression is fucking real, and it’s not your fault. You also aren’t entirely helpless, and while “just do something” […]

December 13, 2021

Tumblr @hakuteeth Not to offer advice nobody asked for but fixing ur sleep schedule is life changing @spyrogf Things that actually work if u try at them: -Drinking water -No longer making self deprecating jokes -Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather -Lighting candles -Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack -Getting up and trying to do one thing even if u can’t do everything maybe brushing ur teeth but not having the energy to shower @chronicallysickchick Taking a shower if you can, putting clean clothes on if you can’t, even just a clean set of pjs. Washing your face.

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Memes, Ritual

Womanhood is good, expansive and resilient

Tumblr @testosteronebutchI get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn’t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don’t mean I can’t be a woman, even if I experience […]

December 7, 2021

Satanic Antifascism logo of “three arrows” with an inverted pentacle on top; the arrows are in lesbian/sapphic pride colors.

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Memes

When white supremacy trumps “male privilege”

Tumblr @doberbuttsI had the cops called on me once (on TDoV lmao) because I was in a field with Creed offleash tweaking our heeling. The woman who reported us said that there was a “black man with an aggressive dog” and that we were scaring her. There was no one in the field with us […]

November 23, 2021

@doberbutts And because I talk about intersectionality- This is why trans men are repeatedly saying we do not have male privilege in the way that is being assumed of us. Especially not trans men of color, and especially especially not black trans men. Sometimes, in some situations, I am regarded as a man. But I am always black. It is not safer to be a black man. A white woman tried to get me killed or arrested so she could run her aggressive pit bull in the field next to both of our houses. She knew who I was. She was our neighbor. I passed her several times walking Creed. Her dog was always offleash in that field and out of control when on leash walking on the street. Don’t tell me she has any right to fear me because “well you’re a man” when I have every right to fear how she is going to wield her whiteness as a weapon against me. That could have been my name on the next tagline for a week.

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Memes

You need to understand why things are harmful

Tumblr @dilfgirlI’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to […]

May 18, 2021

Tumblr @dilfgirl I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: it’s more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It’s performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to [simultaneously] critique and consume media. You need to use discernment. This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what’s good and bad.

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Memes

A better world is possible — but not by following the rules

Tumblr @hater-of-terfsStuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be […]

January 7, 2021

Punk anarchist Baphomet with top surgery scars throwing a Molotov cocktail that was lit by their cigarette. Arms have tattoos of queer communism, satanic antifascism, and squatters symbol as well as usual "solve" and "coagula"

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Memes

Deradicalization is not a speaking tour

“That’s all in the past; I’m different now,” is really only relevant to your subjective self. It may be good that you have found your essence has changed. It can be helpful to think yourself moved out of one category and into another. To the rest of us, though, all we have access to are […]

December 21, 2020

Tumblr @primordial-fungus-monolith: "I'm not joking when I say that deradicalization should necessarily come with you providing some sort of material aid to the people you hurt"

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Memes

“Employees should be able to steal, actually”

Tumblr @feywildwestemployees should be allowed to steal, actually idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate […]

December 7, 2020

Tumblr @feywildwest employees should be allowed to steal, actually @feywildwest idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month. I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any. A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total. I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat. The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal. Employees should be able to steal, actually.

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